Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging – Serially connected batteries or cells – With discharge of cells or batteries
Patent
1996-08-27
1997-09-09
Tso, Edward
Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging
Serially connected batteries or cells
With discharge of cells or batteries
320 15, 320 18, H01M 1046
Patent
active
056660405
ABSTRACT:
A safe, low-cost battery monitor and control system is presented. Electronic modules are connected to the terminals of respective batteries that make up a series string. Each module produces a go
o-go signal for each of four battery conditions: over-voltage, under-voltage, over-temperature and float-voltage, which are read by a network controller connected to each module via a single three-wire local area network. Based on the information received, the controller can adjust the charging current to the string, terminate the charge cycle, limit the current drawn from the string when in use, or disconnect the string from the system it is powering. The controller can record a history of the charge and discharge activity of each battery, so that the weakest batteries can be identified and replaced instead of scrapping the entire string. The system controls the charging current delivered to each battery during a charge cycle to insure that each battery is neither overcharged nor undercharged, by connecting a bypass circuit across the battery's terminals to reduce the charging current when an over-voltage condition is detected, or by reducing charge current to the string. A battery's voltage measurement is temperature compensated so that it can be accurately compared to temperature dependant limits. The addressable switch is bidirectional, so that the controller can, for example, force bypass resistors to be connected across selected batteries in order to heat up the batteries in a cold environment.
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